CheckMate Wisdom
Merging Chess, The Art of War, and Street Intelligence for Life's ChallengesBy Kedrick Levy Sr.
Length2h 16m
About this audiobook
Checkmate Wisdom: The Streets Are a Chessboard is a powerful guide to strategy, discipline, and personal growth. Kedrick Levy Sr. connects chess, The Art of War, and street intelligence to show how hard-earned survival skills can become wisdom, leadership, ownership, and legacy.
This book is not about glorifying the streets. It is about learning how to think before you move, read the room, control your emotions, protect your position, sacrifice wisely, overcome adversity, and build a better future.
For readers who have survived pressure, made hard choices, or want to move through life with greater purpose and strategy, Checkmate Wisdom delivers practical lessons for business, family, leadership, faith, and personal transformation.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, History
Length2 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Checkmate Wisdom.: The Streets Are a Chessboard.
3Dedication
4Author's Note
5Introduction
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6Business And Leadership Application: Never let pressure make your move for you.
7Reflection Questions
8Business And Leadership Application
9Reflection Questions
10Business And Leadership Application
11Reflection Questions
12Business And Leadership Application: Do not complain about losing if you keep standing in losing positions.
13Reflection Questions
14Business And Leadership Application: If the board is designed for you to lose, change the board.
15Reflection Questions
16Business And Leadership Application
17Reflection Questions
18Business And Leadership Application
19Reflection Questions
20Business And Leadership Application: Lack can sharpen you if you refuse to let it break you.
21Reflection Questions
22Business And Leadership Application: The win is not real until it is finished.
23Reflection Questions
24Reflection Questions
25Conclusion
26Final Reflection Guide: Reflection Questions
27About The Author
28Closing Credits
29Narration produced for XPI Media Network.: Thank you for listening.
30Checkmate Wisdom.: The Streets Are a Chessboard.
31Dedication
32Author's Note
33Introduction
34Business And Leadership Application: Never let pressure make your move for you.
35Reflection Questions
36Business And Leadership Application
37Reflection Questions
38Business And Leadership Application
39Reflection Questions
40Business And Leadership Application: Do not complain about losing if you keep standing in losing positions.
41Reflection Questions
42Business And Leadership Application: If the board is designed for you to lose, change the board.
43Reflection Questions
44Business And Leadership Application
45Reflection Questions
46Business And Leadership Application
47Reflection Questions
48Business And Leadership Application: Lack can sharpen you if you refuse to let it break you.
49Reflection Questions
50Business And Leadership Application: The win is not real until it is finished.
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